I have just verified with an engineer from Mabuchi Motors. The motor we received in the kit is NOT the same as last year. It is NOT a Johnson Electric motor. The part number displayed on our kit motor (on a sticker) is 74440-0640. The Mabuchi part number that corresponds to that motor is RS-550PF-6534. I will have Brandon attach the spreadsheet, because it is too big for me to do. Key information is:

...And THANK YOU for sharing that! (Talk about Gracious Professionalism!)

That note may have just saved the bacon on a LOT of teams! That's a 25% lower free speed than the old FP/Johnson. I can envision a BUNCH of teams scratching their heads in weeks 3-6 wondering "what the heck did I do wrong with my calculations ??", when it didn't "rev up to spec".

Major props for Paul...

NOW I'm VERY curious about the OTHER "big boy" motors! When you find/determine the other motors' specs, can you please post the links to their data sheets too?

I took mine out today and much to my surprise it has 19 teeth, and each tooth looks a bit "fatter" than the ones we got in 2001, so I assume it is less than 32 DP. I do not have a good way to measure the DP and Pressure Angle... I should get some tools to do so at some point.